Lessons in Lateralisation from the Insects

Jeremy E Niven; Adrian T A Bell

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.008

Lessons in Lateralisation from the Insects

Trends Ecol Evol. 2018 Jul;33(7):486-488. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.008. Epub 2018 Apr 30.

Authors

Jeremy E Niven¹, Adrian T A Bell²

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund 223 62, Sweden.

PMID: 29716741
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.008

Abstract

The behavioural lateralisation of a species is thought to be influenced by social organisation. However, recent studies of insect species with different social structures suggest that traits showing both population-level and individual-level lateralisation can be found in single species. This has broad implications for our understanding of how lateralisation and handedness evolves.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Functional Laterality
Insecta / physiology*
Social Behavior